May 2011
But Love, this love has not ended:
just as it never had a birth, it has
no...
– Pablo Neruda
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance...
– Hunter S. Thompson
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
– Edgar Allan Poe (via lipsticksmiles)
dearscience:
There has always been so much dust in the air between us. It settled in deep crevices and in fine lines, it stuck to your eyelashes and it made your bones heavy. It has made me heavy, too. And I can still feel you dancing in my knees, dodging moonbeams and solar flares, sending cosmic debris hurtling in my direction as a new coat of dust covers up your footprints.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an...
– Jane Eyre, to Mr Rochester - Charlotte Brontë (via literaryheartbeat)
Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many...
– The Tao of Pooh (Perite)
Metaphors can reduce the distance. (…) Metaphors help eliminate what separates...
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via ikilledjackjohnson)
Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time,...
– Anaïs Nin (The Journals: 1934-39 v. 2)(via yellowcrayon)
I feel only you
and the distance between you
and my waiting skin.
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me...
– Sylvia Plath (via creatingaquietmind, peacelovejoynlife) (via apeaceofmyheart) (via heavygrey) (via leavesturn)
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for...
– Søren Kierkegaard
There’s a reason I’ve always said I’d be happy alone. It wasn’t ‘cause I thought...
– Grey’s Anatomy
Aren’t you weary from playing cellos with ex-lovers bones all the time?
I am.
– Derrick Brown (via echoingstreetsigns)
Sometimes I really believe it, that I am going to
save my life
a little.
– Mary Oliver, The Return (via grammatolatry)
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…in that drunken place
you would
like to hand your heart to her
and say...
– charles bukowski
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above...
– Henry David Thoreau (via provehitoinaltum)
But luxury has never appealed to me. I like simple things, books, being alone,...
– Daphne du Maurier (The Lover) (via heartfight, lydianea) (via everybodyshutup)
Sometimes....when the house is quiet and the jazz...
I watch them sleep and think about how much I love my baby human beings…;) <3
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Who else is attractive and attracted to our curious journalist? Strangely, the...
Ever since happiness heard your name it has been running through the streets...
– Hafiz of Persia (via aimlessdrifter)
…One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from...
– Albert Einstein (via feedforthefire)
A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and...
– Vincent van Gogh (via feedforthefire)
Well uh-uh baby I ain't got no plan..Gonna float...
Les temps sont durs pour les rêveurs.
– “Times are hard for dreamers” — Amélie (via onwardintolight)
And I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That...
– Chris Cleave (via 1000scientists)
In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the...
– Charles Baudelaire (via holdenandcaulfield)
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads...
– Robert Frost. (via rivetingdelirium)
Everything we do is a choice: oatmeal or cereal, highway or side street, kiss...
– The Piemaker (via endisnigh) (via caveart)
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries EVERY DAY with...
– Henry David Thoreau (via freshgypsy)